Word: nikopol
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...southeast, on the soggy approaches to Nikopol, five other divisions were Still desperately fighting their way down to the Black Sea. They were harried by the low-flying Stormoviks and pursued through the thick, black mud by Russian mobile columns. For many a German soldier the icy Dnieper...
...painful to the Germans than all this promise of trouble was the loss of the great captured empire which was to feed Germany's factories and her people. Gone were the oil of the Caucasus, the wheat of the Ukraine, the coal of the Donets basin. Now, at Nikopol, the Germans lost more than half of the manganese used by their industry. When the iron of Kirvoi Rog is lost, Hitler's fond dream of military and economic self-sufficiency in Russia would come...
...Dnieper U. In a four-day battle, his Third Ukrainian Army drove through 30-odd miles of enemy defenses. Moscow announced that he had all but cut off five infantry divisions there. But more important still was his threat to the great Nazi strongholds of Krivoi Rog and Nikopol. When they fall (this week the Russians were fighting in Nikopol's suburbs), most of the Dnieper loop will be cleared out. Germany will face the prospect that both ends of its once well-knit line will come unraveled...
Worst recent economic news for Germany came last week from the Eastern Front as the Red Army captured Balki, only 25 miles southeast of Nikopol. For the past two years the Germans have been getting more than half of their manganese from the Nikopol mines-about 200,000 of the 375,000 tons which their war industry requires each year...
...Tractor Works had been in partial operation for some months. Shipyards at Nikolaev on the Bug River are probably building much-needed vessels for Germany's merchant fleet plying between Rumanian ports and the threatened Crimea. The Germans are taking iron from mines at Krivoi Rog, manganese from Nikopol. The great Dnieper power dam-pride of prewar Russia-was partly wrecked just before the Red Army retreated across the Dnieper in September 1941, but in late 1942 the Germans were well along with repairs. At least in the richest part...